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Originally Posted by Crowl
How much would you intend running on a tablet, I think for the vast majority of people they would use a similar amount of apps on their phone or a tablet and it would tend to be a similar sort of list to the one you have.
Battery life will be affected, there is no may about it and unless you actually work in this field then you won't know to what degree, but given that companies don't just keep ramping up the memory on portable devices, doesn't that tend to indicate to you that they have a reason beyond simply cutting costs? If a phone or tablet is more than happy to multitask with 512 then adding more memory would simply be adding costs and reducing battery life for no real benefits in actual usage which seems a fairly poor trade-off just to win some arbitrary pissing contest about specs.
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There definitely are real benefits, faster and smoother operation being the main one. But they do take the easy way out, lowering speed and limiting functionality to extend battery life. Instead of looking for other ways to optimize their systems -- a trend which the iPhone started. If more RAM would have no benefits, why would anyone offer more? After all, they are increasing RAM, just at a glacial pace.